Police Step Up Patrols On Memorial Day

To keep holiday drivers safe the Tulsa Police and Oklahoma Highway Patrol have been out in force this holiday weekend. News On 6 anchor Latoya Silmon reports their mission is to get you to slow down.

Monday, May 28th 2007, 8:14 pm

By: News On 6

To keep holiday drivers safe the Tulsa Police and Oklahoma Highway Patrol have been out in force this holiday weekend. News On 6 anchor Latoya Silmon reports their mission is to get you to slow down.

Tulsa Police are on the look out, and their mission is simple.

â€œWe're trying to slow people down. That's basically it,â€ said Tulsa Police Sergeant Rick Bondy. â€œMemorial Weekend typically there's a lot of people on the road, a lot of people that don't make it through the weekend.â€

So armed with radars and lasers, and plenty of backup, they're out to make sure you don't become a statistic.

"Okay black Volvo SUV inside lane," Bondy reported over his police radio.

After Sergeant Bondy makes the call other officers nearby spring into action, making stop after stop in no time flat, and despite sometimes very wet road conditions they say some drivers were speeding up to 85 miles an hour in a 65 mile per hour zone.

"In any given year the number of people killed in Tulsa in accidents is the same as people killed in homicides. Now if I can slow down the number of people killed in car crashes I can make a difference there, save some lives, keep some people from going to the hospital or having their lives torn up,â€ Bondy said.

Tulsa police handed out dozens of tickets on Monday, but they weren't the only ones patrolling the streets; the Oklahoma Highway Patrol was set up at the Muskogee Turnpike.

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